MIlKFED to put up kiosks at IOCl outlets
Chandigarh: MIlKFED has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Indian Oil Corporation limited (IOCl) to put up ‘Verka’ kiosks at the selected Retail Outlets of IOCl. Oil Corporation limited has retail outlets at various locations to market the petroleum products and to provide value added services to the customers. Now these customers can enjoy healthy and tasty products of Verka at the IOCl outlets while they fill their vehicles’ tanks. Amarjit Singh Sidhu, chairman, MIlKFED said “Verka is an admired brand of milk products amongst the customers. We are always looking for engagements points to serve our customers better. By collaborating with IOCl, we will be able to deliver the best of our products to the consumers more conveniently.”
Drop sub-vends clause from new Excise Policy: Cong
Chandigarh: Kiran Choudhry, leader of the Haryana Congress legislature Party ClP), has flayed the new excise policy 2016-17 of State Government, led by Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar, which, besides being dotted by several infirmities, allows opening of sub-vends in gram panchayats after obtaining their consent. Shesaid the provision for opening sub vends would take liquor to the doorstep of every house in the villages, create social tensions, expose the youth and children to the menace and make the lives of women miserable. “Instead of checking the liquor menace in villages, the policy seeks to spread it further. This provision must be dropped immediately,” she demanded. She also criticized the provisions for encouraging setting up of modern shops with good facilities and machine generated points of sale.
Haryana issue transfer and promotion orders
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has issued transfer and posting orders of an IAS officer with immediate effect. Vineet Garg, Managing Director, Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam ltd. has been posted as Principal Secretary, Power, in addition to his present duties, relieving Nitin Kumar Yadav of the charge of Secretary, Power. Meanwhile, the State Government has promoted Virinder Sharma, Under Secretary, Financial Commissioner’s Office to the post of Deputy Secretary and Sanjay Yadav, District Fisheries Officer-cum-Chief Executive Officer, Fish Farmers' Development Agency to the post of Deputy Director, class-I in the pay band of 15600-39100+Grade Pay 5400.
Haryana issues orders
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has ordered that Dr Shilpy Pattar Dutt, General Manager (Administration), Haryana Tourism, Chandigarh would act as first Appellate Authority in place of Ramesh Bhatia, Joint Director, Haryana Tourism, Chandigarh for the matters relating to the Haryana Tourism Corporation under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. KK Yadav, Chief Engineer, Haryana Tourism Corporation would also continue to act as first Appellate Authority for the matters relating to the Engineer Cell of Haryana Tourism Corporation under the RTI Act, 2005.
CIT advises bankers to be vigilant on TDS
Chandigarh: “We had recently surveyed a few branches of different banks and observed that the Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) on interest income on several crores of fixed deposits, have been over looked by the deductors,” said Y K Singh, IRS, Income Tax Commissioner (TDS-1), Chandigarh in the meeting held with Bank Heads of North Zone organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in association with the Department of Income Tax here. More than sixty senior executives from 40 different Nationalised and Private Banks from across the Northern Region including Chandigarh, Punjab and J&K attended the meeting. Singh advised banks to deduct tax in cases where the depositors have submitted Form 15G and the interest income exceeds the basic exemption limit.
PAU TO ORGANISE KISAN MElA
Chandigarh: Punjab Agriculture University, ludhiana has planned to organize a one day Kisan Mela at Krishi Vigyan Kendra Rauni Farm (Patiala) on March 11. A spokesperson of the Agriculture Department said that different department would display 138 stalls in this Kissan Mela exhibition. likewise, women would get an opportunity to exhibit their skills in house-keeping activities, like knitting, stitching and other such hobbies. The spokesperson further said that competitions would also be arranged among the women in these activities. During this Mela, PAU experts would apprise the farmers about the latest techniques in the agricultural as well as other related activities. Quality and certified seed of Kharif crops, vegetables and sampling of fruits would be supplied to the farmers during this Mela, said the spokesperson.
Issuance of Occupation to Building Societies
Chandigarh: UT Administration has decided to issue the Occupation and Completion Certificates to the different Cooperative House Building Societies in Sectors 48, 49, 50 and 51, Chandigarh after relaxing and charging the necessary compounding fee, as per rules, on minor violations made by the different House Building Societies in these Sectors. This was done in the backdrop of decision taken by Sarvjit Singh, Finance Secretary-cum-Chief Administrator, U.T., Chandigarh in the meeting held with Prince Dhawan, Sub Divisional Magistrate (Central)-cum-Assistant Estate Officer, U.T., Chandigarh, and officials from the Department of Cooperative Societies and Building Branch of Estate Office. The Occupation and Completion Certificates will only be issued on the basis of requests received from the President/Secretary of the concerned House Building Societies and after relaxing and charging the necessary compoundable fee, as applicable. The entire exercise will be completed in a time-bound manner. Dhawan said “The Estate Office is consistently working to make life easier for citizens of Chandigarh. This step will bring respite to multiple societies that were facing problems with completion certificates and whose residents had to pay higher charges for utility services. The office shall ensure time bound disposal of Occupation Certificates of various societies in terms of the instructions issued”.
Welspun Renewables expands its solar portfolio
Chandigarh: Welspun Renewables has expanded its solar capacity in Punjab by 4 MW (AC). The latest addition comes close on the heels of its 32 MW (AC) Bathinda solar project. Committed to facilitating Punjab’s green energy transition, the two projects combined together will be annually feeding 54.37 million units of clean energy to the grid. Consequent to this, Welspun Renewables will be offsetting 1,481,525 tonnes of CO2 emissions over the next 25 years.
Inauguration of Andhra Bank, Sec-22 C Chandigarh
Chandigarh: A Venu Prasad, Punjab Principal Secretary, Department of Power and Managing Director, Punjab Infrastructure Development Board has inaugurated Sector-22 C Chandigarh Branch of Andhra Bank. Andhra Bank, a public sector bank has a pan-India presence with 2778 branches & 3466 ATMs/ BNAs/ CRs. Total delivery channels are 6200 plus with two Representative (Overseas) Offices at Dubai (UAE) and New Jersey (USA). The bank has total business of over Rs 3,05,770 crores. Chandigarh zone covers the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and the UT of Chandigarh. Andhra Bank now has 78 branches in Haryana, 75 branches in Punjab states, & 25 branches in Chandigarh Tri-city.D